Improvement in urinals



J. M. WILSON.

U-RINALS.

Paten ted Aug. 1, 1876.

WITN ESSES ATTOR N EY N. PUP-R5. PHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D. C.

To-all whom it may concern:

in urinals.

is provided at one end with a tubular induct,

and screw-threaded upon its outer end.

UNITED STATES- JOSEPH M. wILsON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, AssIeNoa'OE ONE HALF HIs RIGHT TO wAsHIN'e'rO NP. OeLE's Y, O.I..-1,SAME PLA0E.

IMPROVEMENT'IN U-RINALS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 180,689, dated August 1, 1876; application filed Apr-i122, 1876.

Be it known that I, JOSEPH M. WILsoN, of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and valuable Improvement in Urinals; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a longitudinal vertical section of my improved nrinal. Fig. 2 is a cross-section thereof. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the cock F. Fig. 4 is an end view thereof, and Fig. 5 is a detail. I

This invention has relation to improvements The object of the invention is to cut off and let on a flow of water from a feed-pipe open ing into the urinal without using hand-cocks.

The nature of the invention consists in a urinal connected with a feed and a waste pipe, and capable of vertical vibration relatiye thereto, such vibration having the effect of opening or closing the connection of the feedpipe with the receptacle, thus letting on or cutting off the flow of the water to the urinal, as will be hereinafter more fully explained.

In the annexed drawings, the letter A designates a wedge-shaped vessel or basin, having at its lower edge a cylindrical tubular enlargement, a, separated from the body of the vessel by a sieve or strainer, b. This vessel B, connected, by means of a pipe, G, with a rinsing-pipe, D, running around the upper edge of the vessel, and provided upon its under side with openings, for a purpose hereinafter explained, and at the other with a simi-' lar tubular educt, E, which, as well as the induct, tapers slightly outward, and is rabbeted F represent suitable cocks, which are passed upon the induct and educt D E, and the opening in which is tapered to conform to the shape of the said educt and induct. Cock F at the right of Fig. 1 is provided with a duct,

d, which registers with a perforation, e, inthe induct, and 'it is connected, by the usual coupling f, with a rigid feed-pipe, g. The other cock F is also coupled to a waste-pipe, h, of suitable rigidity, and the vessel is adequately supported thereon, pipes g h being immovably fixed to a wall or other surface on 'the premises. The educt and induct are thus endowed with the functions of journals, and the cocks with those of bearings, the latter being fixed .and the former capable of vibrating freely thereon. Consequently the flow of water into the vessel may be stopped by imparting to vessel 'a slight vibration, the effect of which would be to throw the duct d out of line with the perforation c.

The urinal may beset in a niche of the wall, and, when thus: arranged, maybe thrust back with one of its faces in the plane of the face of the wall. In general, however, I prefer to place it upon the inside of wash-stand or other doors, which, when opened, will bring the urinal into proper position for use.

Cocks F are held in place upon their journals by means of non-rotating washers tand nuts 12, which latter, when set up, will force the cocks .np on the said journals, and thereby take up the wear occasioned by the movements of the urinal in shutting off and letting I on the water.

The draw-off cock F at the left of Fig. 1 is I of the same construction as the feed-water cock, except that the educt-journal E will be provided with an elongated transverse slot instead of a perforation, e, and will consequently be always open.

The operation is as follows: The vessel having been swung out from the wall, the feedcock will be opened and the water forced up pipe 0 into the rinsing-tube D upon the upper edge of the vessel, and will pour through its cleft or perforated under side down the walls of the vessel, whichis now ready for use. After being used the vessel is thrust back, closing the feed-cock and cutting ofl' the water-supply, when its contents will be drained off through educt E and pipe 71..

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv 1. The combination of a vibrating vesscl,A,

having tubular journals E B, with perfora- I In testin ony that I ciai n the above I have tion's, 0 and the stationary feed and I waste hereunto subscribed my name in the presence cocks F, the ibrm'e having dnct-d-{sitbstan- "of two witnesses. tially as specified. V

2. The combination with the stationary cock" JOS. M. WILSON. F, journal-induct B, and the pipe-O, opening into the saiii' induct, of 'the vibratory vessel Witnesses: A, having rinsing-pipe D around its upper GEO. O. SHELMERDINE, edge, substantially as specified. E. L; PERDRIAUX. 

